Despite Y2K panic at the beginning of the decade, the first ten years of the new millennium proved that our fellow humans are much more dangerous than malfunctioning machines. Unprecedented terrorist attacks on American soil, followed by subsequent attacks around the world punctuated the 2000s. Climate change and unparalleled natural disasters killed hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the global economic meltdown. To finish it off, the world was scared to death by the swine flu pandemic the perfect end to a dreadful decade. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com reviews these and more milestones from the first decade of the new millennium.
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Politics: Obama Addresses CIA Employees - NYTimes.com/Video
President Obama addressed CIA employees Monday. (Video: NBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ Related article: http://tinyurl.com/csdq68
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A funny, yet political view on Star Wars' Return of the jedi movie. myspace.com/steve_o_ stop by and say hi.
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Ken Wilber - Integral Politics
At the recent 5-day Integral Institute seminar on Integral Business Leadership, Ken Wilber was asked, by a senior Zen teacher, "What do you think of the Republican convention?" Ken responded by giving an overview of what a truly integral politics might look like, and used that to compare and contrast with the Democratic and Republican conventions, both of which are less-than-integral. We think that this twenty-minute summary is brilliant, insightful, deadly serious, and wickedly funny, all at once. But by all accounts it is an extraordinary account of why all politics today are considerably less-than-integral, along with certain features that almost certainly would have to be included in the future in any truly integral politics. In this synopsis, Ken focuses on three items that all political theories have attempted to address but none have managed to fully integrate. These are the tension between (1) the individual and the collective; (2) the source of the cause of human suffering: is the individual primarily to blame or is the society primarily to blame?; and (3) the different levels of development that the different political parties tend to represent: any truly integral politics would include and represent all of them, and yet how on earth do you do that? Due to time considerations, Ken did not discuss two other equally important ingredients in any integral politics. One. In representational democracies, people have a right to be at whatever stage of development they are at, and generally speaking, within free speech, a right to express the values of whatever stage they are at. Traditional-fundamentalist (blue) has a right to be traditional, modernist (orange) has a right to be modernist, postmodernist (green) has a right to be postmodernist, and so on. This is generally modified in practice, to the extent that the center of gravity of a culture will tend to impose its values on others, especially if they are first-tier (or less-than-integral) values. Nonetheless, in democratic societies, there's a general background understanding that people have a right to be, and a right to express, whatever stage they are or whatever belief system they possess. Two. They do not, however, have a right to act on those beliefs. This is generally handled in representative democracies by a separation of public and private, and by a similar if more specific principle of the separation of church and state. This means that, for example, in the privacy of my blue-meme mind, I am free to believe that Jesus Christ is my personal savior and that nobody achieves salvation without a belief in Jesus. In public behavior, however, I am not allowed to burn at the stake somebody who disagrees with me. In terms of integral psychology, this means in the interior of an individual (i.e., the upper left), the person can believe whatever they like; but in their public behavior (i.e., the upper right), they must behave according to laws drawn from a worldcentric or higher level of development (lower left), or else they are charged with civil or criminal behavior and removed from society if necessary (lower right). This separation of church and state, or more generally what Max Weber called the differentiation of the values spheres, is one of the great and enduring contributions of the Western enlightenment, a contribution almost entirely misunderstood by extreme postmodernists, who in fact are operating under its protection while bitterly condemning it. (The most common version of this is the aggressive attempt to reduce "I" and "It" to "We,' or the attempt to reduce art and science to a social construction, which can therefore be deconstructed. As it turns out, this reductionism presumes precisely what it denies, but then, deconstructive postmodernism has been little without its performative contradictions.) A truly integral politics exists nowhere on the planet at this time, principally because not enough individuals have emerged at the integral levels of consciousness, and hence no governments anywhere have integral representatives as members (except rarely and by accident). Its principal challenge is to create some form of governance that allows each stage to be itself within the constraints of not harming others (i.e., to let red be red, and blue be blue, and orange be orange, and green be green, etc—precisely because, as we saw, this is a right in virtually all free societies), and yet to govern from the highest, widest, deepest, and most encompassing levels of development emerged to date (starting at yellow). Most representative democracies do this anyway, except their center of gravity is not yet fully integral, and they do it implicitly, not explicitly.
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Fault Lines - Haiti: The politics of rebuilding
Just weeks after the earthquake that took more than 200,000 lives, Avi Lewis finds that debates over how to rebuild Haiti are already underway.
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A deadly combination. BOOK OF VIDEO TRANSCRIPTS NOW AVAILABLE http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback/godless-and-free/7864233 You can download an audio version of this video at http://patcondell.libsyn.com/
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America's "Brain-Dead" Politics - Fareed Zakaria
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/27/Fareed_Zakaria_Thriving_in_a_Post_America-Centric_World Author Fareed Zakaria criticizes American political culture for ignoring global issues, and for focusing on short-term political benefits at the expense of long-term prosperity. ----- The rise of other nations need not mean a decline of the U.S., says Zakaria. He foresees a future where the U.S. no longer dominates the global economy, geopolitics and culture, and it needn't be seen as a negative development, he believes; our nation needs to learn to understand other nations and find a way to thrive in this rapidly shifting dynamic. Join us as Newsweek International's editor shares his insights on how our nation can thrive in the coming millennium - The Commonwealth Club of California Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and author of The Post American World and The Future of Freedom.
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BREAKING NEWS: BAT LOOSE IN CONGRESS
Congress is deadlocked on the best way to get a bat out of their committee chamber.
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The Daily Show : Personal Beliefs
Host Jon Stewart explains how personal beliefs fuel the show and are infused with comedy. Correspondent Stephen Colbert discusses how the show would have no feeling if they were not using their own beliefs.
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Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings.
mp3: http://amiestreet.com/music/auto-tune-the-news/auto-tune-the-news-number-5?pytr=gregorybrothers find us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/autotunethenews and/or facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gregorybrothers Lyrics: ML: Any world order That elevates one nation over another Will fall flat SG: Ah, snap ML: I think that goes against the idea of American exceptionalism SG: Exceptional fast food and exceptional dance moves. ML: Most Americans believe that this country was gifted by God, a blessed nation, and that we are better. SG: Yeah, we the promised land, a sacred place, gettin blessed by Joe Biden in space! JB: God bless America! All: Ay! JB: Gah-awd bless America! All: Ay!! JB: God bless, God God bless God bless America!! All: Ay-men!!! SB: Do you realize if you were to take that lettuce, dry it, and roll it, and smoke it... MG: I know, it tastes like goat shit. SB: You smoke your lettuce. MG: Believe me, I've tried. SB: You're gonna end up with similar problems than if you were smoking tobacco. MG: I know, fo sho, you should try it with tomato - burnin salad in my throat! RM: Steve Buyer, warning complacent Americans about the risks of smoking lettuce. MG: You can warn me all you want, but you'll never stop my leafy green fetish. SB: It's not the nicotine that kills! It's the smoooooke! The smooooooke. Cancer: it's the smoke. Heart disease: it's the smoke. Respiratory disease: it's the smoooooooke! It's the, it's the inhalation, it's the smooooke, the smooooooke. If they wanna obtain their nicotine, it's okay. It's the smooooooke, the smooooooooooooke! SG: The more produce we come across, the more problems we see. KC: Some companies say they've received hundreds of applications for just a single opening. One man sent a shoooooe to his prospective employer EG: Shawtayee, don't you know That Air Jordan was from meeee? KC: I wore a long, white eyelet dress and a floppy white hat And carried a walking stick EG: Oo-wee! Am I crazy, am I trippin on shrooms Or you singin bout pimpin on the late night news? Katie Coo, baby boo, you got swagga like a star Don't stop, real talk, we gon take it to the charts! You can be KC: Lady Gaga EG: I can be KC: T-Pain EG: We can be KC: Bringing on the boogie EG: Droppin rhymes like rain You can be KC: Lady Gaga EG: I can be KC: T-Pain Both: Bringing on the boogie EG: With floppy hats and pimp canes LC: We've got some breaking news Let's go to Tracy Burns--she's got all the news TB: Actually, Liz, I think you wanna jump up to Robert Robert: Tracy, baby, you crazy I don't know what the hell's goin on Or where the camera belongs Let's go to Nicole NP: Me? Robert: Yeah, you NP: Me? Robert: Baby boo NP: Me? Robert: Whooo-ooooooooh NP: Me? Robert: Nicole don't know; let's throw it to Joe Joe: Uh, you know, I'm, uh, tryna get a hold of this myself Breaking news guys, um I, I don't have it, Liz, I have to send it back down to you I'm afraid LC: Okay, that's okay But the basics of it is Clearly this is a fascinating story
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